Projects
Learning the complex genetics of the growing craniofacial system in the ABCD study KU Leuven
The Adolecent Brain Cognitive Development Study is the largest long-term study of brain development and child health. A few years ago, 11,878 multi-ethnic children ages 9-10 joined the study and researchers started to track their biological and behavioral development through adolescence into young adulthood. As part of this, full head structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was acquired at the beginning and is repeated every two years, ...
The genetics of autism spectrum disorder: family based translational research on rare variants KU Leuven
Despite the great advances in recent years, there are still many gaps in the knowledge on the genetic etiology of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and counseling for ASD has become one of the biggest challenges in clinical genetics. Since many novel variants are being identified, translational genetic research should bridge the gap between the discovery of ASD susceptibility variants and the actual clinical utility for patients and families. ...